Study finds four of the CDC’s seven measles elimination status indicators missed

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Source: CDC/NIAID

After public health experts declared measles eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, the U.S. CDC established seven indicators of measles elimination status to ensure that the country remained on track. Now researchers find that the U.S. missed four of the seven criteria, with the others at risk.

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